Peter Bucknell(I)
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Early life and education
Peter Wentworth Bucknell was born in Melbourne, Australia to Alan Neal Bucknell and Toni Bucknell. His father was a law graduate and prominent businessman and his mother was an artist, both mainly of English Heritage.
His parents encouraged a well rounded education with heavy emphasis on the arts. They enrolled him in Chinese Mandarin classes which he continued for ten years, and paid for regular violin lessons until he could pay for them himself.
The young Bucknell never owned a video camera, but his parents made sure that he always had basic camera until University when he could afford to buy his own single lens reflex camera.
Aged 18, Bucknell had been interviewed often on ABC radio and was already performing on television with his cabaret group the Como String Quartet who appeared in Jim Henson's "The Ghost of Faffner Hall", and the BBC's reality show "First Exposure", working on his comic timing at festivals in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Montreal. He attended the University of Southern California, eventually moving to Cologne, Germany which he used as a base for his travels throughout Europe, playing music on the streets. He settled briefly in London, Brussels and finally in New York.
During his time as an experimental filmmaker, he showed his films in underground cabaret venues in New York City, and had several films banned from Youtube because of their apparently explicit nature. The banned black and white films used arms and legs mirrored in such a way as to represent other parts of the body.
He wrote for the New York Toimes mostly reports on New York City's arts, politics, technology and celebrity news.
Discovery Mobile commissioned Bucknell through his Producers to make a series of three minute documentaries on the Tower Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. His work on a documentary about Brooklyn Artist James Rizzi, commissioned by a museum in Germany is due to be released in 2008.
Awards The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust awarded Peter Bucknell $10,000 to study in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, where he was given the 'USC Ensemble Award' in recognition of Professional service, Leadership and Performance. USC also awarded him a 'Certificate of Advanced Studies' in recognition of outstanding study and Performance.
Peter Wentworth Bucknell was born in Melbourne, Australia to Alan Neal Bucknell and Toni Bucknell. His father was a law graduate and prominent businessman and his mother was an artist, both mainly of English Heritage.
His parents encouraged a well rounded education with heavy emphasis on the arts. They enrolled him in Chinese Mandarin classes which he continued for ten years, and paid for regular violin lessons until he could pay for them himself.
The young Bucknell never owned a video camera, but his parents made sure that he always had basic camera until University when he could afford to buy his own single lens reflex camera.
Aged 18, Bucknell had been interviewed often on ABC radio and was already performing on television with his cabaret group the Como String Quartet who appeared in Jim Henson's "The Ghost of Faffner Hall", and the BBC's reality show "First Exposure", working on his comic timing at festivals in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Montreal. He attended the University of Southern California, eventually moving to Cologne, Germany which he used as a base for his travels throughout Europe, playing music on the streets. He settled briefly in London, Brussels and finally in New York.
During his time as an experimental filmmaker, he showed his films in underground cabaret venues in New York City, and had several films banned from Youtube because of their apparently explicit nature. The banned black and white films used arms and legs mirrored in such a way as to represent other parts of the body.
He wrote for the New York Toimes mostly reports on New York City's arts, politics, technology and celebrity news.
Discovery Mobile commissioned Bucknell through his Producers to make a series of three minute documentaries on the Tower Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. His work on a documentary about Brooklyn Artist James Rizzi, commissioned by a museum in Germany is due to be released in 2008.
Awards The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust awarded Peter Bucknell $10,000 to study in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, where he was given the 'USC Ensemble Award' in recognition of Professional service, Leadership and Performance. USC also awarded him a 'Certificate of Advanced Studies' in recognition of outstanding study and Performance.